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. SIDE STANDARD FOR SEATS.

APPLICATION FILED 0GT.10, 1910.

. Patented Mar. 5, 1912.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM B. COGGER, OF CLEVELAND, OI-IIO, ASSIG-NOB TO THEODOR KUNDTZ, OF

LAKEWOOD, OHIO.

SIDE STANDARD FOR SEATS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed October 10, 1910.

Patented Mar. 5, 1912.

Serial No. 586,254.

To all whom 2'25 may concern Be it known that I, WILLIAM B. Coconn, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Side Standards for Seats; and I hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to improvements in side standards for seats, such, for instance, as the seats of opera-chairs.

The primary object of this invention is to produce a sectional side standard having a metal base, and superimposed wooden sections between the base and the upper extremity of the standard.

Another object is to produce a side standard of the character indicated which is exceedingly simple in construction and possesses great strength and durability.

WVith these objects in View, and to the end of attaining any other advantage hereinafter appearing, this invention consists in certain features of construction, and combinations and arrangement of parts, hereinafter described, pointed out in the claim, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

In the said drawings, Figure 1 is aside view, in central section, of a side standard embodying my invention. Portions are broken away in this figure to reduce the size of the drawing. Fig. 2is a horizontal section on line 22, Fig. 1, looking upwardly. Fig. 3 is a horizontal section on line 33, Fig. 1, looking downwardly. Fig. 4 is a horizontal section on line 44, Fig. 1, looking downwardly.

My improved side standard for use in supporting a seat '(not shown) comprises a metal base which is composed of a cast metal body A containing (see Fig. 1) two metal pieces B and B which are cast in the rear portion and forward portion respectively of the said body during the casting of the body and have each a screw-threaded hole 6 which extends vertically through the respective cast in piece. Preferably the body A above each metal piece B is provided with a hole 7 which extends vertically upwardly from the said metal piece to the top edge of the base, and the said body is provided below each metal piece B with a hole 8 which extends downwardly from the said metal piece to the lower end of the base. The holes 7 and 8 facilitate the casting of a metal base having the cast in pieces B. r

A wooden cross-piece D (see Fig. 1) rests on and extends forwardly and rearwardly of the base and over the rear and forward portions of the base and consequently across the upper ends of the holes 7 in the base. The cross-piece D is provided above each hole 7 with a hole d which extends vertically through the said cross-piece and is arranged in line vertically or registers with the said hole 7. The cross-piece D has its edges contoured to represent molding.

An upright laterally facing wooden panel C rests on the cross-piece D between the holes 7 and consequently between the Ilgoles 5 formed in the metal pieces B of the ase.

Two wooden posts E and E rest, as at 10, (see Fig. 1) on the cross-piece D at the forward edge and rear edge respectively of the panel C, which posts (see Fig.- 4) overlap the sides of the panel, as at 11, and have portions 12 thereof depending through the holes cl in the cross-piece D into the holes 7 in the base. By the construction hereinbefore described it will be observed that the panel C is interposed between the posts E and rests on the cross-piece D between the said posts.

Each post has its upper portion (see Fig. 1) provided with an upwardly facing shoulder 13 which is spaced from theupper end of the post and the panel C is flush at the top edge thereof with the said shoulder.

A wooden cross-piece G rests on the shoulders 13' of the posts E and extends over and between the posts and also rests on the top edge of the panel. The upper cross-piece G is provided in its under side with recesses g which are engaged by those portions 14: of the posts which project above the shoulders 13 of the posts. The cross-piece G has its edges contoured to represent molding.

A wooden arm-rest H is mounted on and extends longitudinally of the upper crosspiece G and extends over the posts.

By the construction hereinbefore described it will be observed that the posts E and E are not only braced apart by the panel C but are tied together and braced apart at their lower ends by the lower crosspiece D and the base A; that the said posts are tied together at their upper ends by the upper cross-piece G, and that the panel C has its side edges covering the recesses 6 in the posts.

Two vertically arranged or upright tierods L are screwed into the rear port-ion and forward portion respectively of the base. Preferably the rear rod L is screwed into the hole 6 in the metal piece B which is cast in the rear portion of the castmetal body A of the base, and the forward rod L is screwed into the hole Z) in the metal piece B which is cast in the forward portion of the said body. The rods L extend from the metal pieces B of the base upwardly through the holes 7 in the base and consequently extend upwardly from within the base. The rods L extend upwardly from the base through the posts E. Each post E, at the adjacent upright edge of the panel C and centrally between theysides of the panel, is provided with a recess 6 which extends from end to end of the post and is arranged in line endwise with the hole I) in the adjacent metal piece B of the base and accommodates the location of the rod which engages the said hole. The rods L extend not only upwardly from the base through the lower cross-piece D and through the posts E, but upwardly through the upper cross-piece G into recesses it formed in the arm-rest'H at the under side of the arm-rest, and nuts I are screwed onto the upper ends of the said rods and arranged within the said recesses in the arm-rest, and washers m are interposed between the last-mentioned cross-piece and the said nuts.

In the assemblage of the parts the nuts Z are manipulated to clamp the washers m downwardly'against the upper cross-piece G before the application of the arm-rest H. It will be observed therefore that the upper crosspiece G is clamped downwardly against the posts and downwardly against the top edge of the panel; that the panel and posts are clamped downwardly against the lower cross-piece D, and that the lower cross-piece D is clamped downwardly against the topof the base.

It will be observed that by the construction hereinbefore described the cross-pieces D and G, posts E, panels G and the base are efliciently secured together, and not unimportant to making the structure strong enough to prevent its collapse by considerable lateral pressure against the standard ate in attaining the requisite strength in the structure, and the extension of the rods L through the recesses 6 formed in the opposing sides of the two posts does not materially weaken the posts.

I would here remark that the arm-rest G is provided, at the bottom thereof and between the recesses 71 in the said bottom, with dowel-pins 15 which (see Fig. 1) depend into holes 16 formed in the upper crosspiece G, and that the said dowel-pins prevent displacement of the arm-rest on the said cross-piece.

What I claim is In a side standard for a seat, a metal base composed of a cast metal body provided interiorly with two metal pieces which are cast in the rear portion and forward portion respectively and spaced from the top of the said body and have each a screwthreaded hole which extends vertically through the respective cast in piece, which body above each cast in piece has a hole which extends upwardly from said cast in piece to the top of the base; a lower wooden cross-piece resting on the base and extending from the forward end to the rear end of the base; two wooden posts resting on the forward portion and rear portion respectively of said cross-piece and having portions thereof extending through said cross-piece into the holes formed in the base above the cast in pieces in the base, said posts being provided in their opposing sides with recesses extending endwise through the posts; an upper wooden crosspiece embracing the upper ends of and extending between the posts, and upright rods screwed into the screw-threaded holes in the aforesaid cast in pieces and extending from within the base upwardly through the aforesaid recesses and connected at their upper ends to said upper cross-piece.

In testimony whereof, I sign the foregoing specification, in the presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM B. ooeeER.

Witnesses:

N. L. MoDoNNnLL, B. C. BROWN.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G. 

